Blogcast w/Chris Graham: Monday, Aug. 13, 2018

Got my run in this morning

I’m constantly tinkering with my workouts. For a time this summer, I was running 5-6 3.5-mile runs a week, aiming to beat the heat of the day by shortening my exposure to it.

Problem was: I missed long-distance running.

Two weeks ago, I did my first 10-mile run in several months.

Last week, I opted for two nine-milers, and a three-miler for a sort of sprint.

This week, I’m trying out doing one long run a week, then two or three shorter runs with rest.

The long run today: 11.1 miles.

Decent pace (9:11 a mile) for a long summer run.

I’ve got nothing left physically, of course. I am shot.

Bobby Goodlatte: Socialist?

I wrote today about Bobby Goodlatte, the son of 13-term Republican Congressman Bob Goodlatte, announcing on Twitter that he is backing Democrat Jennifer Lewis in her bid against former Goodlatte protege Ben Cline in the Sixth District.

Cline, you may remember, because I’ve written about it a lot, made reference to the election being an opportunity to send a message to the “evil advocates of socialism,” which, I know Ben, have known him for 15 years, doesn’t sound like the Ben I know, but he said it.

Wonder … if he thinks Bobby Goodlatte is one of those “evil advocates of socialism,” and if so, what he thinks about Mama and Daddy Goodlatte for how little Bobby turned out?

Waynesboro approves $1M for museum:
Don’t go to the bank to cash the check just yet

Waynesboro City Council approved a resolution Monday providing $1 million in incentives to the Virginia Museum of Natural History to build a Waynesboro campus downtown.

This, of course, means nothing, in a city where the City Council made a similar pledge, repeated for years, to provide recurring funding for the Wayne Theatre, then famously reneged on said pledge, because it butthurt Frank Lucente to do so, and acknowledge that he was wrong.

We’d have a big problem if the City Council were to follow through on this pledge after throwing the Wayne to the wolves.

The Wayne is an effort of a large group of people who live in this community. This natural history museum is not of this community.

Enough!

I really enjoy listening to “Busted Open” on Sirius XM with host Dave LaGreca, but: enough with “the WWE.”

Dave and today’s co-host, Bubba Ray Dudley, are talking a lot about WWE today with the walk-up to SummerSlam upon us.

For the millionth time, it’s not “the WWE.”

WWE stands for World Wrestling Entertainment. (Or Walk With Elias.)

Either way, you’d never say “the World Wrestling Entertainment” or “the Walk With Elias.”

So: stop saying “the WWE.”

It’s just “WWE.”

I’m liberal, but … not that liberal

I have quite the love-hate relationship with the liberal blog Splinter. On the one hand, love how the writers find topics that Google News and the other aggregators miss, and the snark, on the other, I’m supposed to hate capitalism now.

That was what one headline today suggests. “More and More Democrats Are Realizing That Capitalism Sucks.”

Mmm-kay. I mean, I get it. The 1 percent have everything, the rest of it fight for the crumbs. People die too soon because of lack of access to healthcare. We call it welfare when the government helps poor people eat and have shelter, don’t call it welfare when the government helps billionaires build factories and sports stadiums and the rest to make more money.

Et cetera, ad nauseam, ad infinitum.

But: is this capitalism, or our political system?

Spoiler: it’s our political system, which we’ve perverted with money.

Spoiler: money still plays a role in socialist states. Everything has a value.

So, I guess, I’m a DINO.

Another way I can tell is from the article “Twitter Is So Bad Today,” through which I learn that it’s evil of me to think anything negative about people identifying as antifa slapping cameras out of the hands of journalists and shouting epithets and whatever else at the media types covering their counterprotests.

Go to hell, basically, on that. Nazis doing that nonsense, Trump rallygoers doing that nonsense, it’s bad when they do it, and it’s bad when people on my side of the divide do it.

Cut it out, the activity, and cut it out, the apologia. Neither are good looks.

This: pathetic

Spot the difference?

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Corey Stewart for U.S. Senate!#DefeatKaine#TakeVirginiaBack
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— Corey Stewart (@CoreyStewartVA) August 13, 2018

Chris Graham is the editor of Augusta Free Press.